“I've read a lot of court cases and media accounts about how innocent people wind up getting shot by police officers, and you'll take my word for it that none of them had anything to do with beetle collectors. A lot of it has to do with misinformation from people who don't know what they're talking about, who tell police things, and then the police accept it and then view a situation through the eyes of a person who didn't know what they were talking about.”
“It's not just me; it happens all the time to all kinds of naturalists. Bird watchers, people who study the nighttime habits of arachnids, amphibious creatures and so on; it happens to a lot of us all the time.”
